I moved two months ago and one month ago I sent in a new voter registration form to update my address in Washington, DC.

For the past month, on the DC Board of Elections web site, when I searched for my "voter registration status" I got the following message:

Of course, the signed application is what I sent in a month ago.  I called on Friday to see if perhaps the online database just wasn't updated.  The woman told me it was, but they'd gotten a ton of registrations and would be processing them through the weekend.  "Don't worry," she said, "but call back on Monday to make sure."

Today, Monday, is the voter registration deadline for DC.  I just called.  This time, I got a busy signal at the Board of Elections.

If you haven't seen something about this already: Washington State Republican Party Chairman Luke Esser recently called the race for McCain in the state primary even though only 87.2 percent of precincts had reported. At the time Esser called the race, McCain was ahead of Huckabee by only 242 delegates, with a sizable number left to count. According to Talking Points Memo, "Boss Esser's political benefactor, according to one Washington State political blog, is none other than state Attorney General Rob McKenna, who just happens to be John McCain's state campaign chairman."